Matt Maher

Google just activated a dormant superpower that OpenAI can't copy. Their new Personal Intelligence update for Gemini proves that the next phase of AI isn't about raw intelligence...it's about context. By ingesting your Gmail, photos, search logs, and YouTube watch history, Google is doing something OpenAI literally cannot do: utilizing a decades-long backlog of your digital footprint to personalize responses instantly. The analogy I use in the video is simple: OpenAI is a first date; Google is a 20-year marriage. One is trying to impress you; the other already knows where you left your keys and what you looked like in 2009. The battle for the "best" model is over. The battle for the most "personalized" model just started. #ArtificialIntelligence | #GenerativeAI | #Gemini

Check out my latest article: Agentic Commerce Hits a Wall: Amazon’s Victory Signals a Locked-Down Future for AI Shopping linkedin.com/pulse/agentic-… via @LinkedIn

My #SXSW Daily Update - March 16: IAB's Caroline Giegerich & my hot takes on (3) AI topics at SXSW... ...along with her bike attempting to take out my legs.

An honor to be on #Trading360 talking about @Adobe earnings (@SchwabNetwork)

Is Meta is the sleeping giant of AI shopping? They are testing out a new AI shopping tool that isn't focused on just the tech, it leans into their social graph. With 3.53 billion users, Meta knows your intent and your mood better than any search engine or digital platform. If they can successfully bolt an AI commerce layer onto their ad machine, they become a viable agentic commerce player. The infrastructure is ready...I'm just not sure the consumer is. My take in the video below. 👇 #MetaAI #Ecommerce #Agentic

Amazon won its lawsuit against @perplexity_ai. The biggest loser? Consumers. The legal loopholes that gave Amazon the victory shows just how terrified the tech giant is of agentic commerce. My breakdown of the result. Keep fighting @AravSrinivas!

If you think smartphone innovation is dead, you're looking in the wrong place. Yes, Apple and Google have made our daily devices powerful and reliable, but let's be honest....the hardware updates have become a snooze fest. Step outside Silicon Valley, though, and things get interesting. At Mobile World Congress, the experiments are alive and well: 🤖 The Robot Phone from Honor 🐕 Cellular devices for your pet (via a smart collar) 🤯 Bytedance's AI-first 'Nubia' smartphone with an app-less UI The innovation is out there. We’re on the ground at MWC tasting the tech so you don't have to. See what the future actually looks like in this week’s brief. 🎥👇 #MWC26 | #Smartphones | #Innovation

Apple's smart glasses won't win on AI. They'll win because you already own an iPhone. #SmartGlasses | #AppleIntelligence | #AI

Meta is about to turn your face into a digital ID tag. I’ve been wearing the Meta Ray-Bans for a while now, and if I’m being honest, they’re easily the best AI wearable on the market. The tech is seamless. But there’s a massive "surveillance state" asterisk coming. The New York Times just dropped a report on an internal Meta document regarding a feature called "Name Tag." It’s exactly what it sounds like: real-time facial recognition that identifies people as you look at them. The disconcerting part is Meta’s strategy. Internal docs suggest they want to roll this out while "civil society groups" are distracted by the current political environment. Basically, they’re looking for a window where no one has the bandwidth to fight them. We saw a version of this last week when Ring scrambled to bury their "find-a-dog" feature after the Super Bowl backlash. But Meta seems to be banking on the "launch now, apologize to Congress later" approach. My video breaks down the update. #MetaRayBans | #DigitalPrivacy | #AIEthics

Here's my 60-second crash course on the (7) subsets of AI you need to know... 💬 Large Language Models 🧠 Machine Learning 🔎 Predictive AI 👁️‍ Computer Vision 🖼️ Generative AI 🗣️ Conversational AI 🤖 Agentic Orchestration

An Openclaw AI agent just negotiated a $4,200 discount on a car, though it failed at the last step: It couldn't pay. This marks the era of Agentic Economy, where AI needs Crypto rails (ERC-8004) to survive. Here is the blueprint for the next financial revolution🧵👇

@kevinroose @MikeKhristo This quote needs to be turned into a plaque that hangs on the front door of the AI divisions at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

@MikeKhristo i have honestly no idea what it will do

By popular request, I'm making Stash, my vibecoded read-later app, public so you can download and use it yourself: kevinroose.com/stash/ Enjoy the fruits of my (Claude's) labor!

Ads in ChatGPT: exciting or existential threat for OpenAI? They're starting with $60 CPMs, a very high premium for an unproven ad product, but the same starting point as Netflix in 2022 (according to Ad Age). Netflix waited 15 years and accrued $4.5B in yearly profit before running ads. OpenAI is doing it while bleeding cash and on the hook for $1.3TN in spending. Oh, and advertisements don't work at scale inside a 1:1 LLM experience, I've learned this working alongside Perplexity to help develop their charter advertising product over a year ago. I break down the implications in below's clip from our Innovation Brief series. #OpenAI | #Advertising | #InnovationBrief

The traditional, authentic Instagram feed is dead. CEO Adam Mosseri is waving the white synthetic flag on the future of content (and media). An important story, reported from the #CES2026 floor! #SocialMedia | #GenAI | #SyntheticMedia

@8BitDo #8BitDoCES I love these guys #CES2026

17 Television Interviews. 3 Hours. 1 Topic: Innovation in Entertainment. Thanks to @Ubisoft for giving me the reins to discuss why the new @AvatarFrontiers game + film are signals for the future of entertainment. #Entertainment | #Worldbuilding | #Innovation

🎁 That's a wrap on 2025. 🔮 Here is my big prediction for 2026. Happy holidays to the X faithful. The Innovation Brief will be back and better than ever in 2026! #Media #Technology #Innovation

It may be an agentic holiday, but I've found a severe flaw in the technology. Yes, AI influenced 1 in 5 Cyber Week orders this year, shaping recommendations, chat, and personalized offers across $336.6B in spend. Today, AI helps reduce decision fatigue and narrow choices. Tomorrow, agents may remove the choice altogether, purchasing on our behalf based on deep personal context. But, if you watched closely when Sam Altman and OpenAI livestreamed a demo of its agentic browser Atlas, I caught an egregious mistake. Here is a clip from my interview with Paula Macaggi on the OFFBounds discussing the fatal flaw its agent made. #AI #Commerce #AgenticAI #Retail #Shopping

We are officially drowning in "Wrapped" posts. 🌊 🤦 Spotify started it. Now Discord, YouTube, and even health apps are getting in on the data-driven recaps (my Whoop just shamed me for my sleep schedule). Platforms don't do this just for you. They do it for the free ads. They know that if they package your data correctly, you will share it. It validates your identity, even if your followers scroll right past it. Is this trend oversaturated, or are you here for the yearly stats dump? Watch the full breakdown below. ⬇️ #YearInReview #2025Trends #DigitalCulture

Will ChatGPT end up as a fiscally fatal mistake?